Commerce

QuickCommerce API

quickcommerce-pp-cli

Compare live Indian product prices, stock, and delivery ETAs from the terminal, then keep the history locally.

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Install

npx — recommended

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install quickcommerce

Installs the CLI binary and the agent skill (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more). Add --cli-only or --skill-only for one half. Requires Node.

Hermes

hermes skills install mvanhorn/printing-press-library/cli-skills/pp-quickcommerce --force

From the Hermes CLI. Inside a chat session use /skills install with the same path.

OpenClaw

Install the pp-quickcommerce skill from https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/tree/main/cli-skills/pp-quickcommerce. The skill defines how its required CLI can be installed.

Paste this to your OpenClaw agent — the skill describes how to install its CLI.

Claude Desktop

This CLI ships an MCPB bundle. Download the latest release .mcpb and double-click it — Claude Desktop walks you through the install.

View source on GitHub →

Compare live Indian product prices, stock, and delivery ETAs from the terminal, then keep the history locally.

QuickCommerce CLI covers the provider's REST and hosted-MCP surface while adding a local mirror for repeatable analysis. Use history, fastest delivery, credit planning, stale-data checks, and unit-price views to turn location-sensitive responses into decisions.

Authentication

Set QUICKCOMMERCE_API_KEY to the API key from the QuickCommerce dashboard. The CLI sends it as X-API-Key and keeps paid calls explicit; platform discovery is available without a key.

Quick Start

# Confirm the CLI configuration path without making a paid request.
quickcommerce-pp-cli doctor --dry-run

# See which platforms support search, item lookup, and ETA.
quickcommerce-pp-cli platforms --json

# Preview a location-aware product search request.
quickcommerce-pp-cli products --query milk --latitude 12.9021 --longitude 77.6639 --platform BlinkIt --dry-run

# Preview a cross-platform comparison before spending credits.
quickcommerce-pp-cli comparison --query milk --platforms BlinkIt,Zepto --latitude 12.9021 --longitude 77.6639 --dry-run

Unique Features

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Local state that compounds

history prices — Query local observations to see price, stock, rating, and availability movement over time.

Choose this when an agent needs to explain what changed instead of fetching only the current value.
```
quickcommerce-pp-cli history prices --item 501346 --since 30d --agent
```
history diff — Show the field-level changes between the latest saved observations.

Choose this after ingestion when an agent needs a precise price, stock, or ETA delta.
```
quickcommerce-pp-cli history diff --item 501346 --latest 2 --agent
```
mirror ingest — Persist real QuickCommerce command responses and metadata into the local SQLite mirror.

Choose this when an agent wants future history, offline search, or a reproducible observation record.
```
quickcommerce-pp-cli mirror ingest --stdin --agent
```

Decision-ready comparisons

delivery fastest — Rank currently available delivery options while preserving closed or unparseable platforms.

Choose this when an agent must recommend a viable fastest platform rather than list raw ETA rows.
```
quickcommerce-pp-cli delivery fastest --location 12.9021,77.6639 --agent
```
mirror coverage — Report observed, missing, and stale platform coverage for a location.

Choose this when an agent needs to know whether a location has usable evidence across platforms.
```
quickcommerce-pp-cli mirror coverage --location 12.9021,77.6639 --agent
```
prices value — Compare price per unit from explicit pack quantities without guessing missing units.

Choose this when the cheapest sticker price may not be the cheapest comparable quantity.
```
quickcommerce-pp-cli prices value --query milk --location 12.9021,77.6639 --agent
```

Agent-native safety

requests plan — Calculate fan-out credit cost and affordability before making paid platform requests.

Choose this before an agent launches a multi-platform search or ETA fan-out.
```
quickcommerce-pp-cli requests plan --platforms blinkit,zepto --operation search --agent
```
mirror stale — Find saved product and ETA observations that are older than a chosen trust window.

Choose this before making decisions from local data whose location-sensitive freshness matters.
```
quickcommerce-pp-cli mirror stale --max-age 24h --agent
```

Recipes

Compare milk prices

quickcommerce-pp-cli comparison --query milk --platforms BlinkIt,Zepto,Swiggy --latitude 12.9021 --longitude 77.6639 --agent --select results

Ask for only the cross-platform result map instead of the full response envelope.

Plan a paid fan-out

quickcommerce-pp-cli requests plan --platforms blinkit,zepto,swiggy --operation search --json

Check the expected credit cost before making a multi-platform search.

Rank delivery speed

quickcommerce-pp-cli delivery fastest --location 12.9021,77.6639 --agent

Rank viable open platforms while retaining unavailable rows for explanation.

Find stale observations

quickcommerce-pp-cli mirror stale --max-age 24h --json

Detect local data that needs a deliberate refresh.

Inspect an item trend

quickcommerce-pp-cli history prices --item 501346 --since 30d --agent

Review saved price, inventory, and availability movement for one item.

Usage

Run quickcommerce-pp-cli --help for the full command reference and flag list.

Paths & environment variables

This CLI separates local files into four path kinds:

Kind	Contents
`config`	User-editable settings such as `config.toml` and saved profiles
`data`	Durable local data: `credentials.toml`, `data.db`, cookies, browser-session proof files, and other auth sidecars
`state`	Runtime state such as persisted queries, jobs, and `teach.log`
`cache`	Regenerable HTTP/cache files

Each kind resolves independently. The ladder is:

Per-kind env var: QUICKCOMMERCE_CONFIG_DIR, QUICKCOMMERCE_DATA_DIR, QUICKCOMMERCE_STATE_DIR, or QUICKCOMMERCE_CACHE_DIR
--home <dir> for this invocation
QUICKCOMMERCE_HOME for a flat relocated root
XDG env vars: XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME, XDG_STATE_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME
Platform defaults matching existing installs

For containers and agent sandboxes, prefer a single relocated root:

export QUICKCOMMERCE_HOME=/srv/quickcommerce
quickcommerce-pp-cli doctor

Under QUICKCOMMERCE_HOME=/srv/quickcommerce, the four dirs resolve to /srv/quickcommerce/config, /srv/quickcommerce/data, /srv/quickcommerce/state, and /srv/quickcommerce/cache.

MCP servers do not receive CLI flags from the host. Put relocation in the host env block:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quickcommerce": {
      "command": "quickcommerce-pp-mcp",
      "env": {
        "QUICKCOMMERCE_HOME": "/srv/quickcommerce"
      }
    }
  }
}

Precedence matters in fleets: an ambient per-kind variable such as QUICKCOMMERCE_DATA_DIR overrides an explicit --home for that kind. Use QUICKCOMMERCE_HOME or the per-kind variables for durable fleet relocation; treat --home as the weaker per-invocation lever.

Relocation is one-way. Unsetting QUICKCOMMERCE_HOME does not move files back to platform defaults, and doctor cannot find credentials left under a former root. Move the files manually before unsetting relocation variables.

Existing installs keep working because the platform-default rung matches the legacy layout. On the first auth write, stored secrets leave config.toml and are consolidated into credentials.toml under the data directory. Run quickcommerce-pp-cli doctor --fail-on warn to check path and credential-location warnings in automation.

Commands

account

Inspect API credit balance and packs.

quickcommerce-pp-cli account - Check credit balance, usage, and expiry.

comparison

Compare products across multiple platforms.

quickcommerce-pp-cli comparison - Search and compare products across multiple platforms.

delivery

Check delivery timing and store availability.

quickcommerce-pp-cli delivery compare - Compare delivery ETAs across quick-commerce platforms.
quickcommerce-pp-cli delivery eta - Get delivery ETA and store availability for one platform.

items

Fetch current details for a platform item.

quickcommerce-pp-cli items - Get live price, stock, and availability for an item ID.

platforms

Discover platform support and ETA scope.

quickcommerce-pp-cli platforms - List platforms supported by each endpoint.

products

Search products by keyword, location, and platform.

quickcommerce-pp-cli products - Search products on one platform by keyword and location.

Self-learning loop

This CLI caches per-question discovery so repeat queries skip the walk and structurally similar queries get answered via entity substitution. The loop also self-captures: every invocation is journaled locally, and failed-flag corrections plus fresh teaches surface as candidates on the next recall for confirm/reject judgment. Agents call recall before discovery and fire teach & after answering. See the ## Automatic learning section in SKILL.md for the full protocol.

quickcommerce-pp-cli recall <query> - Look up cached resources for a query before running discovery
quickcommerce-pp-cli teach - Record a query -> resource mapping (silent on success, safe to background with &)
quickcommerce-pp-cli learnings list - Inspect taught rows
quickcommerce-pp-cli learnings forget <query> - Undo a teach
quickcommerce-pp-cli learnings candidates - List auto-captured candidates awaiting confirm/reject
quickcommerce-pp-cli learnings stats - Local loop metrics: recall hit rate, teach-to-reuse, playbook resolution, candidate counts
quickcommerce-pp-cli teach-pattern - Install a query/resource template up front
quickcommerce-pp-cli teach-lookup - Add an entity mapping (e.g. country code, team alias) for pattern substitution

Pass --no-learn or set QUICKCOMMERCE_NO_LEARN=true to disable the loop for deterministic flows.

The local store's schema version stamp is one-way: once this version of quickcommerce-pp-cli opens the database, older binaries refuse it with a version error — upgrade the binary rather than downgrading.

Output Formats

# Human-readable table (default in terminal, JSON when piped)
quickcommerce-pp-cli comparison --query milk --platforms BlinkIt,Zepto --latitude 12.9021 --longitude 77.6639

# JSON for scripting and agents
quickcommerce-pp-cli comparison --query milk --platforms BlinkIt,Zepto --latitude 12.9021 --longitude 77.6639 --json
# Filter to specific fields
quickcommerce-pp-cli comparison --query milk --platforms BlinkIt,Zepto --latitude 12.9021 --longitude 77.6639 --json --select query,platforms,lat

# Dry run — show the request without sending
quickcommerce-pp-cli comparison --query milk --platforms BlinkIt,Zepto --latitude 12.9021 --longitude 77.6639 --dry-run

# Agent mode — JSON + compact + no prompts in one flag
quickcommerce-pp-cli comparison --query milk --platforms BlinkIt,Zepto --latitude 12.9021 --longitude 77.6639 --agent

Agent Usage

This CLI is designed for AI agent consumption:

Non-interactive - never prompts, every input is a flag
Pipeable - --json output to stdout, errors to stderr
Filterable - --select <field>[,<field>...] returns only fields you need
Previewable - --dry-run shows the request without sending
Read-only by default - this CLI does not create, update, delete, publish, send, or mutate remote resources
Offline-friendly - sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available
Agent-safe by default - no colors or formatting unless --human-friendly is set

Exit codes: 0 success, 2 usage error, 3 not found, 4 auth error, 5 API error, 7 rate limited, 10 config error.

Health Check

quickcommerce-pp-cli doctor

Verifies configuration, credentials, and connectivity to the API.

Configuration

Run quickcommerce-pp-cli doctor to see the resolved config, data, state, and cache directories. The platform-default config path is ~/.config/quickcommerce-pp-cli/config.toml; --home, QUICKCOMMERCE_HOME, and per-kind env vars can relocate it.

Static request headers can be configured under headers; per-command header overrides take precedence.

Environment variables:

Name	Kind	Required	Description
`QUICKCOMMERCE_API_KEY`	per_call	Yes	Set to your API credential.

agentcookie (optional)

If you use agentcookie to sync secrets across machines, this CLI auto-adopts agentcookie-managed credentials with no extra setup. When the daemon writes to this CLI's config, quickcommerce-pp-cli doctor reports agentcookie: detected and auth-status labels the source as agentcookie. Skip this section if you don't use agentcookie - the CLI works the same as any other.

Troubleshooting

Authentication errors (exit code 4)

Run quickcommerce-pp-cli doctor to check credentials
Verify the environment variable is set: echo $QUICKCOMMERCE_API_KEY Not found errors (exit code 3)
Check the resource ID is correct
Use quickcommerce-pp-cli products --json, quickcommerce-pp-cli items --json, or quickcommerce-pp-cli platforms --json to inspect available data.

API-specific

401 invalid or missing API key — Export QUICKCOMMERCE_API_KEY and rerun quickcommerce-pp-cli doctor --json.
402 no credits remaining — Run quickcommerce-pp-cli account --json, then reduce the platform list or add credits.
422 invalid platform or location parameters — Run quickcommerce-pp-cli platforms --json and use a supported platform with decimal latitude/longitude.
DMart, JioMart, or Minutes returns location errors — Add --pincode with the six-digit delivery pincode.
Local results may be stale — Run quickcommerce-pp-cli mirror stale --max-age 24h --json before relying on the mirror.